A Slam Simulation Base Escape Model Using Response Surface Methodology.

Abstract

This these presents a microcomputer compatible, base escape nuclear survivability model specifically designed to compute SAC alert aircraft pre-launch survivability. It computes the number of aircraft surviving from single or multiple bases under Sea Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) attack. The FORTRAN model concentrates on simulating the process from alert to take-off. In particular, it models the statistical variability of crew reaction time, engine start time, taxi time, and take-off separation time under various levels of readiness. Nuclear overpressure, gust, and thermal fluences are determined through response surface methods and aircraft survivability is derived from cumulative log-normal damage functions. Its advantages over current base escape models are microcomputer compatibility and stochastic representation of the pre-launch survivability timing variables. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA172402

Entities

People

  • Steven P. Clark

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Mathematical Models
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Operations Research
  • Random Variables
  • Reaction Time
  • Sea Launched
  • Simulations
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Statistical inference.